In 1976, Shakti Samanta and Tarun Majumdar made an exquisite film called Balika Vadhu. Based on a novel by the Bengali writer Bimal Kar, it traced a girl's journey through the mysteries of marriage, against a rousing narration of the Indian freedom ...

Filmmaker Shakti Samanta is renowned for his long association with Rajesh Khanna. In fact, it was Shakti Samanta who gave a new lease of life to the struggling Rajesh Khanna and made him a Superstar overnight with his hit film ARADHANA. Later the duo dared to ...

Noted film maker Shakti Samanta's birth anniversary falls on January 13. Rajesh V Gaur and Suneel V Gaur chronicle the life and times of the ace film maker In a career that straddled five decades, Shakti Samanta directed numerous hits. Samanta ...

VISAKHAPATNAM: The group general manager, Simhadri Super Thermal Power Plant of NTPC, AK Samanta, hoisted the tricolour at the Republic Day celebrations on Monday. On the occasion, Samanta thanked all the employees for working as Front Runner Team ...

DREAMS AND REALITY Tinsel dreams took wing early in Bindu's life. I watched my mother on stage. Her play Ladakvayo was a hit. But her father (Nanubhai Desai), a noted film producer, wanted her to be a doctor. We were eight of us, seven sisters and ...

Accused of double-standards and of making films that were vulgar in content, the Censor Board Of Film Certification (CBFC)'s newly-appointed chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani answers all charges being hurled at him left, right and luckily not from the ...

It is all about artistic expressions and exchanges at the Indo-Korean ceramic residency, says Lalithaa Krishnan. The Kalakshetra Foundation's leafy environs form the ideal retreat for the four-week Indo-Korean ceramic residency, organised jointly ...

FOR many Hindi film buffs, the 1950s and 1960s are considered the golden age of Hindi cinema; a time when some of the best directors, writers and actors came together to create seminal films that are considered classics even half a century later. It ...